Filed under: Celebrity Finances, Money
From Detroit Free Press:
Six years after her death, the memorabilia collection of civil rights icon Rosa Parks -- medals, papers, even the hat she wore on her historic bus ride -- is in the hands of a New York auction house, its ownership in limbo, with a value once pegged at $10 million.
Her estate, with a cash value of $372,000 at the time of her death, is mostly gone -- eaten up by lawyer's fees.
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